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Vaping Is Bad For Your Health

August 24, 2016 - This is a new field and evidence is still emerging. However, perhaps the most compelling data on e-cigarettes has come out of the TCORS program that I direct at UNC. Researchers in this program looked for changes in gene expression in the upper airways of control subjects, healthy smokers and e-cig vapers. Startlingly, they found that more genes were changed in the airways of vapers than of smokers.Read more...

Put that in your e-cigarette and smoke it, or should you?

February 11, 2016 - Smoking cigarettes dramatically increases a person’s risk for a host of diseases, and there’s an assumption that electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, are not harmful because users do not inhale smoke full of known carcinogens.Read more...

Thursday, September 19, 2013 -- UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine is one of 14 Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science created by FDA, NIH. Research from new program to inform potential tobacco regulatory activities.Read more...